It’s wonderful when one speaks about with a mathematician this evening regarding historical erasure and memory regarding 1947 partition of Bengal, and how nostalgia is misplaced as a myth in covering up for hard facts, or the inability to engage with hard truths in the Bengali consciousness.

Why is the sordid and gruesome violence happen, by members of a common linguistic community? Was it power or a desire for a different trajectory, which ultimately Bangladesh and Indian West Bengal has experienced?

Equivalence of Violence

The cancelling out of equations

Is in reality lives snubbed out

Theatres of conflict cause suffering

No scenario is the same

Lived experiences are unique

Though share a common humanity

Aspirations, suffering and everything in between

Arakan, Kashmir and Gaza

Are not same, yet similar

All proper nouns signifying

Resistance at one level

And state failure at another

Humanity reigns in the midst of politicking,

blood is shed, not differentiating between categories,

Binaries are real, yet irrelevant

and we ask, whose blood shed was more precious

#SitweSheds